A curated list of awesome applications, software, tools and shiny things for macOS.
Items marked with are open-source software and link to the source code. Items marked with are free (as in free beer).
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- Audio Hijack - Record audio from any application like iTunes, Skype or Safari, or from hardware devices like microphones and mixers.
- π Audio Profile Manager - Allows you to pin input/output devices for each particular combination of connected devices. May suppress HDMI displays from being chosen.
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BackgroundMusic) - Record system audio, control audio levels for individual apps, and automatically pauses your music player when other audio starts playing and unpauses it afterwards.- π krisp - AI-powered app that removes background noise and echo from meetings leaving only human voice.
- π Plug - Discover and listen to music from Hype Machine.
- π Recordia - Record audio directly from the menu bar or with a global keyboard shortcut.
- π VOX Player - Play numerous lossy and lossless audio formats.
- XLD - Rip/Decode/convert/play various "lossless" audio files.
- π Arq - Encrypted backups to Amazon, Dropbox, Google, OneDrive, etc.
- Carbon Copy Cloner - Create incremental and fully bootable backups of your Mac to external storage.
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ChitChat) - A native Mac app wrapper for WhatsApp Web.- π Telegram - A messaging app with a focus on speed and security, itβs super fast, simple and free.
- π Textual - An Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client.
- π Data Rescue - Comprehensive and professional data recovery for a multitude of scenarios.
- DiskWarrior - Recover from filesystem corruptions when Disk Utility is out of options.
- Anvil - Serve up static sites and Rack apps with simple URLs and zero configuration.
- Base 2 - A GUI for managing SQLite databases.
- π CocoaRestClient - An app for testing REST endpoints.
- π Cork - A fast, intuitive Homebrew GUI
- π Dash - An API Documentation Browser and Code Snippet Manager.
- π Decode - Converts Xcode Interface Builder files (Xib and Storyboard files) to Swift source code.
- π Fork - a fast and friendly git client for Mac.
- π DevUtils - All-in-one toolbox for developers. 42+ beautifully crafted useful developer tools, native macOS app, work offline.
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Gas Mask) - A simple hosts file manager which allows editing of host files and switching between them.355β
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gitbar) - Open source github contribution stats on your Menu Bar.- GitUp - A simple but powerful Git macOS app.
- π GitX-dev - A fork (variant) of GitX, maintained and enhanced with productivity oriented changes.
- π Hopper Dissassembler - A Dissassembler for MacOS and Linux. Has a Demo option for 30 minutes of productivity.
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Hosts) - Edit hosts file.118β
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Iconology) - Edit Icons and then Export to Xcode, Icns, Ico, Favicon, Mac Iconset, or a Custom List of Sizes.- π ImageAlpha - Apply lossy compression on PNG files with or without transparency for more efficient files.
- π ImageOptim - Makes images take up less disk space and load faster.
- Integrity - Easily find your website's broken links.
- Kaleidoscope - Powerful diff and merge application supporting text, images, and folders.
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Knuff) - The debug application for Apple Push Notification Service (APNs).- π Medis - A modern GUI for Redis.
- π Pasteboard Viewer - Inspect the system pasteboards.
- π Paw - The ultimate REST client.
- π pgMagic - A PostgreSQL client that lets you talk to your database in SQL or natural language.
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Pods Updater) - A macOS app which helps you manage dependency releases in your Podfile.- π Postico - A modern PostgreSQL client.
- Postgres.app - The easiest way to get started with PostgreSQL.
- π Proxyman - High-performance man-in-the-middle proxy to observe and manipulate HTTP/HTTPS requests.
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Pusher) - A free tool to do sandbox push notifications.- PSequel - A PostgreSQL GUI tool.
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QorumLogs) - Swift Logging Utility for Xcode & Google Docs.- Quiver - A delightful notebook for programmers that allows mixing rich text, code, markdown, LaTeX, and graphs.
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Sequel Ace) - A MySQL & MariaDB database manager.- Sequel Pro - A MySQL database manager.
- π SnippetsLab - Manage and organise snippets of code.
- π SourceTree - A free Git & Mercurial client.
- π Swiftify - Objective-C to Swift code converter and Xcode & Finder extensions.
- π TablePlus - A modern, native GUI for multiple databases.
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Touch Bar Simulator) - The macOS Touch Bar Simulator as a standalone app.- π Tower - The most powerful Git client.
- π Trailer - Configurable menubar Git notifications with accompanying native iOS app.
- π Unused - An app for checking Xcode projects for unused resources.
- Vagrant Manager - Manage your vagrant machines in one place with Vagrant Manager for macOS.
- Versions - SVN GUI client for Mac.
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WWDC) - The WWDC app.6395β
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Xcodes) - Install and switch between multiple versions of Xcode.
- Kindle App - Amazon Kindle App for macOS.
- π CotEditor - Lightweight plain-text editor for macOS.
- π Emacs - Port of Emacs to work as an macOS app.
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MacVim) - Vim, the text editor.- π Nova - The beautiful, fast, flexible, native Mac code editor from Panic.
- Sublime Text 3 - The sophisticated text editor.
- π TextMate - A graphical text editor.
- VimR - Vim, refined.
- Airmail - Lightning fast email client designed for El Capitan.
- π MailMate - Advanced IMAP email client, featuring extensive keyboard control and Markdown support.
- π Mailplane - A tightly integreted client for Google Mail, Inbox, Calender, and Contacts.
- π ForkLift - File Manager and FTP/SFTP/WebDAV/Amazon S3 client.
- Path Finder - A powerful dual-pane browser alternative to Finder.
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Quicklook-Plugins) - List of extra quicklook plugins to enable previewing more filetypes in the Finder.- TotalFinder - A powerful alternative to Finder.
- π XtraFinder - Adds useful features to Finder.
- Battle for Wesnoth - Turn-based tactical strategy game, featuring both single-player and online multiplayer combat.
- Boxer - The DOS game emulator thatβs fit for your Mac.
- π Dolphin - A powerful, Open Source emulator for Nintendo GameCube and Wii games.
- OpenEmu - Multiple Video Game System.
- Screentendo - Turn your screen into a playable level of Mario.
- Stockfish - Beautiful, powerful chess application.
- π Acorn - A very Mac-like image editor with a comprehensive feature set.
- π Affinity Designer - Vector image design tool, possible Adobe Illustrator alternative.
- π Affinity Photo - Raster image design tool, possible Adobe Photoshop alternative.
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GifCapture) - Record GIF screencasts.- π GIPHY Capture - Capture and share GIFs on the desktop.
- Image2icon - Create and personalize icons from your pictures.
- π macSVG - Design and edit SVG content for web, mobile, and animation.
- π OmniGraffle - An app for creating precise, beautiful graphics.
- π Pixea - An image viewer for macOS with a nice minimal modern user interface.
- Pixelmator - Powerful image editor, possible Photoshop alternative.
- Sketch - Hybrid vector/bitmap layout application, especially useful for UI, web and mobile design.
- Sketch Toolbox - A super simple plugin manager for Sketch.
- xScope - Tools for measuring, inspecting and testing on-screen graphics and layouts.
- π hacker-menu - Hacker News Delivered to Desktop.
- π NetNewsWire - A classic RSS reader reacquired by its original author and rewritten for modern macOS.
- ReadKit - Have all your Instapaper, Pocket, etc. feeds in one place even when you're offline.
- Reeder - News reader that integrates with with Feedbin, Feedly, and other popular services.
- Vienna - RSS/Atom newsreader.
- π Alfred - Boosts your efficiency and productivity.
- π BetterTouchTool - Configure gestures for mouse and actions for keyboard shortcuts.
- ClipMenu - ClipBoard History Manager.
- CloudClip - Sync your clipboard between your Mac and your iOS devices.
- π Dropzone - Create a popup grid of customizable actions that enhance productivity on your Mac.
- π f.lux - Automatically adjust your computer screen to match lighting.
- π Fantastical - Complete Calendar app replacement which uses natural language for creating events.
- π Hazel - Create rules to automatically keep your files organized.
- π HazeOver - Turn distractions down and focus on your current task.
- π HyperDock - Select individual application window.
- π iCMD - Fuzzy menubar search and vim emulation.
- π Instant Translate - Translate speech and text between 100+ languages from the menu bar.
- π ItsyCal - A tiny menubar calendar to display your Mac Calendar app events.
- π Karabiner - A powerful keyboard customizer.
- Keyboard Maestro - Automate routine actions based on triggers from keyboard, menu, location, added devices, and more.
- Keytty - Enables you to control your mouse with a few key strokes. Mouse Keys Alternative.
- π LaunchBar - Start applications, navigate folders, manipulate files, control your Mac and much more just by using the keyboard.
- π MeetingBar - Your meetings in MacOS status bar
- π MenubarX - A powerful menu bar browser.
- π OmniFocus - An incredible task management platform for Mac, iPad, and iPhone.
- π OmniOutliner - Perfect for collecting information, outlining ideas, adding structure to any sort of writing, and much more.
- π Pandan - Time awareness in your menu bar.
- Paste - The new way to copy & paste for Mac.
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PDF Archiver) - A nice tool for tagging and archiving tasks.- PopClip - Instantly copy & paste, access actions like search, spelling, dictionary and more.
- π Presentify - Annotate anything on screen, be it, images, pdfs, videos, code, etc.
- π Qbserve - Automatic time and project tracking, timesheets, invoicing, and real-time productivity feedback.
- π Quicksilver - Control your Mac quickly and elegantly.
- Rocket - Makes typing emoji faster and easier using Slack-style shortcuts.
- π SelfControl - Block access to distracting websites.
- π Simplenote - Simple cross-platform note taking app with cloud-based syncing.
- π Taskade - Real-time organization and task management tool.
- π TaskPaper - Plain text to-do lists.
- Telephone - A SIP softphone. Make phone calls over the Internet or your companyβs network.
- π TextExpander - Create custom keyboard shortcuts for frequently-used text and pictures.
- π Timing - Automatic time and productivity tracking for Mac. Helps you stay on track with your work and ensures no billable hours get lost if you are billing hourly.
- π CloudApp - Capture and share files and screenshots instantly.
- π Jumpshare - Real-time file sharing app with support for instantly sharing code / Markdown, annotating screenshots, screen recording, and voice recording.
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mac2imgur) - Upload images and screenshots to Imgur.- π Monosnap - Annotate and upload images and screenshots, supports many backends like S3, SFTP, WebDAV, Dropbox, etc.
- π Transmission - Simple, lightweight, multi-platform torrent client.
- π iTerm 2 - A terminal emulator.
- π 1Password - Password Manager and Secure Wallet.
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AnyBar) - A menubar status indicator.301β
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APNGb) - .apng image assembler/disassembler app.- AppCleaner - Uninstall your apps easily.
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Artify) - A macOS X application for bringing dedicatedly 18th century Arts to everyone.- π Bartender - Organize your menu bar apps.
- Batch Image Resizer - Resize a large number of images quickly on your computer.
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BeardedSpice) - Control web based media players with the media keys found on Mac keyboards.- π BetterZip - A very capable and full-featured archive manager.
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BitBar) - Display output of any script to the menu bar.- Burn - No-nonsense burning of Data/Audio/Video CDs and DVDs, including copying.
- π CheatSheet - Know your short cuts.
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ClipboardCleaner) - Automatically removes text formatting from the clipboard.- π CommandQ - Never accidentally quit an app again.
- ControlPlane - Automate running tasks based on where you are or what you do.
- π DaisyDisk - Analyze disk usage and free up disk space.
- Deliveries - Beautiful and simple package tracking.
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DisableMonitor) - Easily disable or enable a monitor on your Mac.7794β
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Dozer) - Hide MacOS menubar items.- EtreCheck - Output system information and configuration to get more informed help from Apple support professionals.
- π Equinox - Create macOS dynamic wallpapers.
- Fanny - Notification Center widget and menu bar application to monitor your Mac's fans and CPU temperature.
- π Finicky - App that allows you to set rules that decide which browser is opened for every link.
- π Flotato - Use any web site as a beautiful Mac app.
- Fluid - Turn web applications into Mac applications.
- π gfxCardStatus - Menu bar app to monitor and switch between integrated and discrete GPUs on MacBook Pro.
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Gray) - Pick between the light appearance and the dark appearance on a per-app basis with the click of a button.3588β
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Helium) - A floating browser window that allows you to watch media while you work.- Irvue - Thousands of stunning photos and wallpapers from Unsplash on your Mac.
- π iStat Menus - An advanced system monitor for your menubar.
- π Jiffy - Discover and share the best GIFs on GIPHY.
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Kawa) - A better input source switcher with shortcuts.5428β
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KeepingYouAwake) - Menu bar utility that prevents Mac from going to sleep.- π Keka - Compress to and extract from many archive file formats.
- Knock - Unlock your Mac quickly and securely.
- LaunchControl - Create, manage and debug launchd services.
- Loading - See when apps are using your network in your Mac menubar.
- π Little Snitch - Protect your privacy.
- MacDown - Markdown editor.
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Mackup) - Keep your application settings in sync.- π MacPass - Password Manager.
- Media Converter - Simple (drag and drop) but advanced media conversion.
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Menubar Colors) - Convenient access to the system color panel.- MenuMeters - A set of CPU, memory, disk, and network monitoring tools for macOS.
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MonitorControl) - Control your display's brightness and volume on your Mac as if it was a native Apple Display. Use Apple Keyboard keys or custom shortcuts. Shows the native macOS OSDs.- Monodraw - A powerful ASCII art editor.
- Mounty - A tiny tool to re-mount write-protected NTFS volumes under macOS 10.9+ in read-write mode.
- Noizio - Ambient sound equalizer for relaxation or productivity.
- Notational Velocity - Store, retrieve and sync notes within a minimal GUI.
- π Noti - Receive Android notifications on your mac (with PushBullet).
- Numi - Beautiful calculator app.
- OnyX - Multifunction utility to verify disks and files, run cleaning and system maintenance tasks, configure hidden options and more.
- Paparazzi - A small utility that makes screenshots of webpages.
- Paragon NTFS - World fastest NTFS driver.
- π Radio Silence - Simple to use firewall and network monitor.
- π Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection Client - Remote Desktop Connection Client lets you connect from your Macintosh computer to a Windows-based computer.
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RDM) - Easily set Mac Retina display to higher unsupported resolutions.- Site Sucker - Automatically download websites from the Internet.
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ShiftIt) - Managing windows size and position.1144β
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SlowQuitApps) - Prevent accidental Cmd-Q.- π SmartCapsLock - Makes the Caps Lock key smarter, so that when the key accidentally gets activated and you START YELLING even though you don't want to, you can just select the yelling-text and press the key again to instantly fix its case instead of typing everything all over again.
- Soulver - Beautiful expressive calculator.
- π SSH Tunnel - Manage your SSH tunnels, tightly integrated with macOS Keychain, secure and intuitive.
- π Strongbox - Secure Password Management for iOS and MacOS. Open Source. Compatible with KeePass and Password Safe.
- π TeamViewer - Remotely control another computer.
- TextBar - TextBar is a tiny but powerful app that lets you add any text to your MenuBar.
- Typeeto - Lets you use your Mac's keyboard as a bluetooth keyboard to type on another devices.
- Typora - Another minimal Markdown editor.
- Ukelele - Unicode Keyboard Layout Editor.
- Γbersicht - Run system commands and display their output on your desktop as widgets.
- π The Unarchiver - Unarchive many different kinds of archive files.
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Wineskin) - Run Windows applications and games on your Mac.
- π HandBrake - High performance video encoding and conversion tools with a nice GUI.
- π IINA - Media player with a minimalist design.
- π mpv - Media player.
- ScreenFlow - Screencasting and video editing software.
- π Subler - Mux and tag MP4 files.
- Subtitlr - Drag and drop subititle download utility.
- Amethyst - Window manager (automatically keep windows sized in grids).
- Divvy Window Manager - Window management for tiling your windows.
- Hammerspoon - Extremely powerful scripting engine for macOS.
- π Hummingbird - Easily move and resize windows without mouse clicks, from anywhere within a window.
- π Moom - Move and zoom windows, super light weight and customizable.
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Phoenix) - A lightweight window and app manager scriptable with JavaScript.- π Rectangle - Easily organize windows without using a mouse.
- π Stay - Resize/position windows when displays change.
- π Swish - Control windows and applications with trackpad gestures.
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yabai) - Tiling window manager with focus follows mouse.
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Aerial) - Apple TV Aerial Screensaver for Mac.- Catch - The easiest way to use ShowRSS.
- π Clocker - Check time in multiple timezones from your Mac menubar.
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Juice) - Make your battery information a bit more interesting.936β
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Sonora) - A minimal, beautifully designed music player.- π Spillo - Powerful, beautiful and fast Pinboard client.
- π Transmit - A FTP client.
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Awesome macOS Command Line) - Use your macOS terminal shell to do awesome things.9565β
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m-cli) - ο£Ώ Swiss Army Knife for macOS.8763β
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Mac-CLI) - ο£Ώ macOS command line tools for developers.10527β
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mas) - A CLI for the Mac App Store.
- Bluetooth Debug Menu - Factory reset devices and more.
- Command Line Utilities Part 1
- Command Line Utilities Part 2
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EnvPane) - An preference pane for environment variables.24667β
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Glances) - System monitoring tool that runs in terminal.- π Thread on StackExchange
Ansible playbook to configure a development and desktop environment from a clean macOS install.
- https://gist.github.com/kevinelliott/3135044
- https://gist.github.com/kimmobrunfeldt/350f4898d1b82cf10bce
- π GPG Suite - Full GPG toolkit with easy to understand GUI applications and Mail.app plugin.
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LinkLiar) - Menu application written in Swift to help you spoof the MAC addresses of your Wi-Fi and Ethernet interfaces.- π macchanger by acrogenesis - Easily change your MAC Address
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macchanger by shilch) - Change / spoof MAC address (random, custom and restore).831β
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MIDAS) - Intrusion Detection Analysis System.20791β
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OSXCollector) - Forensic evidence collection & analysis toolkit.- π Pareto Security - A MenuBar app to automatically audit your Mac for basic security hygiene.
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santa) - A binary whitelisting/blacklisting system.- π Shimo - Fully-featured VPN client for Mac.
- π SimpleumSafe - Encrypt, organize and sync files with macOS or iOS.
- π tinc - Secure mesh VPN software.
- π Tunnelblick - Easy to use OpenVPN client and GUI.
- π VeraCrypt - Free and open source disk encryption software.
- π Viscosity - Fully-featured OpenVPN client, ready for enterprise deployment.
- π Trackpad Gestures
- Power Tools
- Show hidden files
- π Mac Power Users
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Awesome Screensavers)
- π macOS 11 Big Sur
- π macOS 12 Monterey
- π macOS 13 Ventura)
- π macOS 14 Sonoma
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